La verità non basta - 9788850249800

La verità non basta: Carter Crossing, Mississippi. La ragazza è bellissima, vestita di bianco, e ha la gola tagliata, forse ha anche subito degli abusi. Teatro dell'omicidio è una sperduta cittadina che deve le sue alterne fortune alla vicinanza con Fort Kelham, importante base dell'esercito americano in cui è di stanza anche il capitano Riley - figlio di un potente senatore -, che secondo le prime indagini aveva da tempo una relazione con la vittima. E non si tratta dell'unico caso di omicidio in cui la vittima era una donna che frequentava i militari di stanza alla base. Il Pentagono affida allora la delicata indagine a Jack Reacher, maggiore della polizia militare, che ben presto comprende di avere per le mani il caso più scottante della sua carriera...
Carter Crossing, Mississippi, March 1997. The girl is beautiful, dressed in white and had his throat cut "from ear to ear." According to initial findings made the scene even has abused. Theatre of the murder is a small, remote town in Carter County, which owes its changing fortunes to its proximity to major us army base Fort Kelham, where are stationed two ranger companies, one of which is commanded by Captain Riley, son of the powerful Senator who chairs the armed services Committee. According to preliminary investigations conducted by the Sheriff of the town, the victim had a relationship with Captain Riley. And, what is worse, is not the only murder case in which the victim was a beautiful woman who was attending the military stationed at the base. That's why the Pentagon entrusts the delicate assignment to shed light on the affair to Jack Reacher, major of the military police, who soon arrived on scene under cover, includes to have on our hands on the hottest event of his career. For Reacher will then be the most difficult choice: hide the truth and not being able to live with himself, or denounce it and give up everything?